I thought as a gay man beg sent to prison my life was over. I learned that 's not like they show movi. 10 thgs I learned as a gay prisoner.
Contents:
- 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
- COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
- TRANSGENR KILLER NFS TO 1990 MURR OF GAY PORN STAR BILLY LONDON AFTER TIP OM TER SLTH
- AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE
- THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR
- HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
- PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
- THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
- MEET GAY PS
10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
* real gay cops *
The thought of beg a gay man prison sred the livg daylights out of me.
Worse, I feared that bee I was a gay man, I’d be an easy target for abe. Moreover, they also knew that I was gay.
What follows are 10 thgs I learned om the perspective of a gay man and ex-mate at a feral prison mp.
COMG OUT AT WORK: WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE A GAY P NEW JERSEY
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * real gay cops *
My hope sharg this is to offer a realistic snapshot to gay men who get sent to prison. Some men do go gay for the stay too but nobody the term “gay”. Fally, gay mat ually stick together.
But even then, don’t expect fair treatment – particularly if someone wh thory don’t like gay people. Not to be stereotypil but as a gay man, I had some refed tast food before gettg sent away. As a gay man, I prid myself my pearly wh.
TRANSGENR KILLER NFS TO 1990 MURR OF GAY PORN STAR BILLY LONDON AFTER TIP OM TER SLTH
Remember when I said gay sex is unmon at prison?
The one advantage of beg a gay prisoner is that you are sometim approached for a barter. I’ve been asked if gay men have prison boyiends.
AS A GAY OFFICER I SAW HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE POLICE ARE
First, the relatnships are almost always kept on the DL, even if you are openly gay. Other observatns as a gay prisoner:.
Some are gay and some aren't.
THE FIRE PARTMENT CLOSET: BEG GAY BUNKER GEAR
Regardls if you are gay or straight, dog time prison is extremely hard. When you are gay, 's a ltle different. Jam Tracy me out as gay to his police joed the Englewood Cliffs police partment 2002, but 10 years passed before he revealed his secret.
“I was gettg lls om gay police officers all over the untry sayg thgs like ‘Hey, thanks for the publicy and gettg out there', ” he said. ”It's not always easy to be a p who is gay, but each step forward helps pave the way for a better future work environment, Tracy ntu below galleryWell before Tracy ever put on the police uniform, Wtwood police Officer Larry Schwartz helped pave the way for gay officers.
HE WAS ONE OF THE NATN’S MOST REVERED GAY PS. HIS ARRT CHANGED EVERYTHG.
Schwartz remends other gay ps get volved and take the time to fd peers and seek help if there are road for officers who e out as gay to lleagu has not always been smooth. “It’s part of the tnal program bee people might not nsir themselv homophobic or racist, but have unrlyg patterns that are, ” Tracy said.
PRI SAID GAY COPS AREN’T WELE. THEN CAME THE BACKLASH.
A transgenr nvicted killer has nfsed to the 1990 murr of gay porn star Billy London after a tip om an amatr ter slth — but Los Angel County’s woke District Attorney Gee Gascón has refed to file charg the se that has hnted Hollywood for three s.
The ath of 25-year-old London, whose real name was Bill Newton, rocked the close-kn gay muny of Wt Hollywood when piec of his dismembered body were found a dumpster on October 29, 1990. Both are gay men who were born on the same week 1965 and grew up northern Wisns before movg to larger ci. In December of 2021, Williams joed the Facebook group, “The History of Gay WIsns, ” where he found a post about Newton’s murr and beme fixated on the se.
THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
“What I really wanted to do was to help tell Billy’s story, bee I thk he reflected the liv of so many young gay men and teenagers who me up that time. Paskay, who has sce died, operated a skate shop Wt Hollywood, but Williams unvered that he was also a gay porn producer who worked unr the alias Richard Lawrence at the same time Newton was the dtry.
Madn told police she and Qualls were lookg to kill a gay man as part of an iatn to the Chaos Squad Skheads gang, lurg Domer to a seclud area before kidnappg him, beatg him and stranglg him wh his own at hanger.
Newton was a gay porn star Los Angel at the time of his murr. After learng about Madn’s past and her volvement the gay porn dtry Hollywood, Williams found excerpts om a crime book, “Amerin Honor Killgs, ” that ntaed an terview wh Madn. “The person we’re talkg to is a gay porn actor, transgenr skhead, Nazi orthodox Jew.
MEET GAY PS
Gay Hchhiker: Celebratg Pri. I sudnly remembered beg told that gay marriage had jt been legalised France the week before.
In 2001, when I joed the police, homophobia was rife. And when I me out to my senr officer, he told me he uldn’t ndone what I did “as a homosexual”.
In a secret document my chief supertennt wrote that he had nsired movg me bee of “ncerns over victimisatn rultg om PC Maxwell’s sexual orientatn” many straight ps, beg gay was seen as unnatural. I moved statns and ntued to police other gay men unr outdated laws, wh me and my lleagu often lookg for gay men on the nal towpath we uld punish for sex acts.